National Data Center Investment Conference & Expo (DICE) Power Capacity, Energy & Sustainability
From Grid Innovation to Reliable Operations: Enabling the Next Era of Data Center Performance
To Be Hosted in Fort Worth, TX
Event Ended On: Wednesday March 18 2026
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Speakers and Panels
The Evolution of Energy: Time to Power, Bridge Solutions, and Sustainable Capacity
Top Ten Data Center Legal and Business Issues for Powered Land, Leases and MSA's That You Should Know About
Bridging the power gap through on-site power generation | Life Cycle Power
Powering Reliability: Innovations in Data Center Power Management, Backup & Resilience
Marc Bhuyan
Scott Wallace
Michael Sirard
Mark Moody
Why You Can't Miss This Data Center Conference
What You'll Learn:
- How the surge in AI, cloud, and mission-critical applications is driving power demand—and how data center leaders are integrating renewables, advanced nuclear, hydrogen, fuel cells, and microgrids to meet the challenge.
- The best new strategies and technologies for maintaining uptime and reliability, including smart PDUs, dynamic power controls, battery storage, and predictive analytics as supply, risk, and business pressures mount.
- How next-generation business models, utility partnerships, and procurement innovations are reshaping power project delivery and operations.
- Which real-world approaches and advances are optimizing energy management, capacity utilization, and economic value amid rising costs and market competition.
- What practical ESG, sustainability, and circular economy strategies can help operators, developers, and investors meet climate mandates and industry-leading goals.
- How evolving regulations, investor priorities, and hyperscale client expectations are reshaping accountability, reporting, and green practices.
- Who the leading innovators are in battery energy storage, grid support, advanced cooling, and integrated infrastructure.
- How strategic decisions and technology adoption now will shape the winners in resilience, sustainability, and reliable growth for years to come.
How You’ll Do More Business From Attending This Conference:
- Gain practical insights and action plans to improve uptime, resilience, and sustainability—across new builds and existing facilities. Discover proven approaches for integrating next-gen energy solutions, mastering cost and capacity challenges, and staying ahead of changing regulations, reporting, and corporate mandates. Network with top industry minds and unlock strategic partnerships that can optimize operations, mitigate risk, and position your company for leadership in a rapidly transforming market. Leave equipped with the strategies, relationships, and resources needed to deliver reliable, future-proof data centers with business impact.
Who You’ll Network With:
Connect with the stakeholders and experts defining the future of energy and sustainability in digital infrastructure:
- Data Center Owners, Operators & Developers — Visionaries, executives, engineers, and planners navigating unprecedented growth, risk, and transformation in power systems and site planning.
- Grid, Utility & Energy Service Providers — Partners advancing power procurement, grid modernization, onsite generation, and distributed assets.
- Technology Innovators & Solution Providers — Companies delivering breakthroughs in battery storage, backup power, smart controls, and energy optimization.
- Investment, Finance & Sustainability Leaders — Forward-thinking capital managers, ESG investors, and strategists aligning infrastructure growth with value and compliance.
- Power Infrastructure & Operations Experts — Specialists in reliability, monitoring, automation, and cost-effective energy deployment.
- Policy, Regulatory & Community Advocates — Voices guiding responsible growth, energy policy evolution, and public engagement.
Relevant News and Developments:
- Global data center power demand expected to almost double by 2030
- The future of data centers
- Data Centers Are Turning to Onsite Power Sources to Address 35 GW Energy Gap by 2030
- North America Data Center Trends H1 2025
- Revolutionizing Data Center Power Management in 2025
- Data Center Construction Trends in 2025
- AI Data Centers, Desperate for Electricity, Are Building Their Own Power Plants
- Sustainable Data Centers: Investment Trends
- Data Center Trends & Cooling Strategies to Watch in 2025
- Data Center Market Trends
- The cost of compute: A $7 trillion race to scale data centers
Are you an end user*?
Click here to be considered for a complimentary pass. *Hyperscaler, colocation provider (non-sales), investor, private equity, or enterprise tenant.
Why You Should Attend:
National DICE Power Capacity, Energy & Sustainability is the must-attend event for professionals and leaders responsible for data center energy strategy, operations, and investment. Join the foremost experts and innovators tackling the realities—and opportunities—of unprecedented power demand, climate accountability, and resilient infrastructure. Whether your focus is on integrating alternative energy, reducing downtime, optimizing for growth, or shaping the industry’s sustainability future, this conference delivers the intelligence, contacts, and actionable direction to thrive in the new age of critical digital infrastructure.
For questions or interests in becoming a speaker or sponsor, please email our global director, data centers, Adam Knobloch, at adam.knobloch@bisnow.com
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What’s new and elevated this year:
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• Golf at Blue Mash Golf Course to close out three days
• Three days of programming on hyperscalers, AI, power, cooling, development and capital
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Venue
Sheraton Fort Worth Downtown
1701 Commerce St, Fort
Worth, TX 76102
Ballroom/Floor: Magnolia Ballroom / 2nd floor
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Parking Information:
$25, daily rate (valet only), limited street parking available as well
Agenda
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7:30 AM 8:25 AM |
Registration, Breakfast and Networking
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8:25 AM 8:30 AM |
Opening Remarks
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8:30 AM 9:10 AM |
The Evolution of Energy: Time to Power, Bridge Solutions, and Sustainable Capacity
The data center industry stands at a turning point as soaring demand from AI, cloud, and digital business puts unprecedented strain on traditional power sources. In response, operators and developers are not only integrating renewables, advanced nuclear, hydrogen, fuel cells, and microgrids, but also assembling powered land, structuring ramp up schedules, and blending utility power with alternative sources to bring capacity online faster. These strategies are increasingly linked to formal decarbonization roadmaps, heat reuse initiatives, and circular economy efforts, as regulators, customers, communities, and investors raise expectations around emissions, reliability, and grid impact. With power availability and time to power now defining strategic constraints, how will evolving energy integration models, powered land strategies, and bridge power solutions shape which campuses thrive and which fall behind in the next wave of AI-driven growth?
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9:10 AM 9:25 AM |
Top Ten Data Center Legal and Business Issues for Powered Land, Leases and MSA's That You Should Know About
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9:25 AM 9:55 AM |
Coffee and Networking Break
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9:55 AM 10:15 AM |
Bridging the power gap through on-site power generation | Life Cycle Power
Rising power demand and grid interconnection delays are creating significant challenges for data center development across the United States. Increasing power density, projected to reach up to 600 kW per rack within the next two years, combined with lengthy ISO interconnection timelines, is pushing project approvals out by years.
As a result, on-site power generation is becoming a critical solution. By 2030, an estimated 38% of new data center developments may incorporate on-site generation, with up to 27% potentially operating fully off grid.
Flexible, rapidly deployable on-site power solutions are emerging as essential infrastructure to bridge power gaps, enable growth, and ensure reliable energy availability when and where it is needed most.
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10:15 AM 11:00 AM |
Powering Reliability: Innovations in Data Center Power Management, Backup & Resilience
Relentless digital growth and AI‑driven, high‑density workloads are making reliability and uptime more essential, and more challenging, than ever. Operators are advancing smart PDUs, dynamic power controls, battery storage, microgrids, and next‑gen BESS and UPS technologies while rethinking how backup, DR, and redundancy work across regions and facilities. Close collaboration with utilities, colo providers, and technology partners is becoming the norm as teams align facility power design with practical storage, network, and application redundancy patterns that actually work at scale. As risks rise and failure grows costlier, which power management advances, backup architectures, and operational strategies will define the next standard for resilient, cost‑effective data center infrastructure?
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11:00 AM 11:30 AM |
Post-Event Networking
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